Window Cleaner

Maybe even before that.I'm sure they have a contigency plan in place already. Coppell perhaps.

I suspect few of our co-forumists will ever have had any dealings with a Swiss banker or a Swiss in general.Obviously there are exceptions but most of them fit the description involving velvet gloves and iron fists, even the womenfolk. The swiss do not mess about....over anything.

Play-offs?? not unless we win 15 out of our last 18 and even then it might not happen.The top 5 plus Millwall and Huddersfield just need to win at home and draw away and then we'd need 80 points or more.

Still there was no reason to continue with Mills over Harding on Saturday was there? Apparently(according to my cousin) some of our corners and free kicks could have been better if they had been taken by a tyro league player. You work hard,get corners and free kicks (and you do work to get them) and then you just waste them through basic kickng faults.

trouble is we wre getting decent results, one's that if continued would have got us into the play-offs.Then we started chopping and changing,some it it forced by injury,and the results took a downturn,mainly because of the loss of Connolly I suppose.Then we spent a lot of money on central defenders,but we still concede stupid goals from set pieces.What we have to admit is that Connolly is vital to good league results and that Lambert for all his goals probably can't cut it on his own, not from open play.

A very small bird told me,and I have been ridiculed for it already, that AP got his arse kicked into next week after we lost at home to Brizzle, there was no public statement after that,just some really decent results, this time it looks like a sort of public warning.

Bolleau:Dx, that's 1-0 to the moaning minnies then. I really do think AP is on quicksand over this, as I indicated in the not an AP out thread.If there's one thing that people who have made stacks of cash hate it's wasting money with no end result.

I'm not quite sure that Nick's stats are quite accurate for the last 19 league games, perhaps we've only won 10 and drawn 1 more. Anyway,that aside' it seems to me that some of our better results have been obtained with James at right back,perhaps he gives us a little something extra from there,as he has a natural penchant for getting forward.Not at all sure he brings much contribution to midfield at all.On the other hand keeping Mills at LB on Saturday wasn't really productive as he was given James role on corners etc.Not sure that AP likes his CM players taking set pieces.

Some managers who do a great job with no money do a very poor one with loads of it.Burley, the classic example of this, probably Paul Ince as well.

Herefordshire surely

I really couldn't say whether I'd be surprised or not. I just have no idea about whether the top management really took the play-offs as a serious target this season . If (and only if) Pardew obtained funds for the 5 new players signed this window on the pretence that we would make the play-offs,then I could see NC giving him the shove if we don't make them..which we won't.

that's what the bloke said, ask him.

we don't have a League 1 capable side and it's beginning to be a problem away from home. We have a great side with good players but they just can't handle this league on bad pitches, the ball doesn't run and we don't have the arsenal necessary for the Route 1 game.

Pompey bloke saying you might as well write off games between bottom sides and top 4 in the Premier League, can't compete.

well that was my interpretation of what he has just said on Solent.

Pardew virtually admitting we can't play league 1 football on bad pitches.

Pardew--it was the pitch, players can't be faulted.

Wait and see, we will be fabulous on Tuesday and then again next Saturday. It's where the players are at. They don't believe in the play-offs any more and quite rightly so;

It's probably because we are relying too heavily on Lambert, I mean he scores goals but in the last few there have been a lot of free-kicks, penalties and last week's just bounced off . We are Lambert dependant, if he doesn't score we don't win.

corner for us

Exeter hit post, get corner

saving it for Tuesday.Even if we win we'll still be 15 (virtual) points from the play-offs,it is a major factor;

I get the feeling that we have a good side, but that it's just not suited to League 1 football.We have brought in a lot of players capable of playing at the next level, but they aren't too apt at this one, well not capable of overcoming the -10 penalty anyway.

Thomas on James off going to 3-5-2

Puncheon long range shot, easy one for the keeper,